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district

[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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Cabaldon cited The Times story when he introduced the legislation, noting that at least three people contacted by the air district said they had not submitted the public comments attached to their names.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

US district judge Rita Lin said in the ruling that citing national security "is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

The tsunami-like wave soon swept Gyirong Port, the customs checkpoint connecting Gyirong County in China’s Tibet region and Nepal’s Rasuwa district.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Water district officials said the swamp hen was still at the marsh as of Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

This was in the Marsabit district, just south of the border with Ethiopia.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

The impact on public schools—from verdicts, settlements and retroactive insurance premiums—is approaching $4 billion, said Michael Fine, chief executive of a state task force that advises school districts on fiscal issues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The number of districts with single-digit margins in presidential elections has also been falling fast.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

The company is also staring down lawsuits from people and school districts that predated the settlement and are set to go to trial soon, the Times reports.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Bundelkhand, a semi-arid region that spans several districts in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is notoriously drought-prone.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

“Plaintiffs’ novel proposal is that we dismantle Georgia’s statewide PSC system and replace it with an entirely new districted system,” the court wrote.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

As school districted switched to distance learning in March, the nonprofit Partnership for Connecticut spent $24 million to provide 60,000 laptops to high school students.

From Washington Times Dec. 2, 2020

Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

Less important but still a concern: Only one of our daughter’s friends from day care will attend the school that we are districted for.

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

They districted the city, appointed a large investigating committee, and gave tickets calling for the articles most needed in the families found in a suffering condition.

From A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences by Laura S. Haviland

The justices further acknowledged the emergence of robust two-party competition and the increasing sophistication of computer-generated districting maps.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

In 1986, the court articulated a test for determining when election districting is racially discriminatory.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2023

“A districting plan must comply with the broader constitutional standard of upholding the right to vote on equal terms and to substantially equal voting power,” Associate Justice Robin Hudson wrote in the prevailing opinion.

From Washington Times Dec. 16, 2022

“I see the argument on the other side — a state interest in independent districting commissions. But as I read this, it is about districting in Los Angeles,” Chemerinsky said via email.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2022

Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler




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